News Roundup - 12/08/2011

• Miyamoto retires from big games to work on smaller, more personal projects
• The Darkness II tweeker is back to brighten you day
• New Soul Calibur 5 trailer fills in the gaps
• Space is not the final frontier for PC gamers
• Paradox announces closed beta for Warlock: Master of the Arcane
• New Secret World location video takes you to the desert
• These Batmen use real guns
• Trine 2 gets a launch trailer
• Pac-Man Battle Royale heading to a D&B near you
• Minecraft is still coming to XBLA
• New Final Fantasy XIII-2 trailer shows off some of the game's environments
• Mario Kart 7 makes use of green packaging in Japan
• Netflix also gets a facelift with New Xbox Experience
• A letter from Marc Whitten to the Xbox Live Community
• New Xbox Experience with Metro Dash rollout starts this morning
• Arkham City patch kinda sorta fixes DX11 issues among others